Who Killed President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963

Written by Chriss W. Street

President Donald Trump forced release on Tuesday of the first tranche of 80,000 pages from 1,124 documents, representing about one third of approximately 3,500 John F Kennedy assignation documents withheld by multiple U.S. government entities in multiple places for 25 years.

JFK assassination scholar Jefferson Morley said in a statement late Tuesday night that the release of the first tranche of documents “is an encouraging start.” He added, “Seven of ten JFK files held by the Archives and sought by JFK researchers are now in the public record.”

Morley added, “These long-secret records shed new light on JFK’s mistrust of the CIA, the Castro assassination plots, the surveillance of Oswald in Mexico City, and CIA propaganda operations involving Oswald.”

The National Archives database holds another 3,886 JFK records with redactions, comprising about 15,000 pages of material. Last month the FBI announced it was sending another 2,400 assassination-related records (14,000 pages) to the National Archives for future release.

The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection at Archives II facility in College Park, Maryland, holds over 319,000 documents comprising an estimated 3 million pages of material related to thedeath of the president in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna as Chair of the U.S. HouseTask Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, announced on X that her committee would hold a JFK’s assassination hearing on March 26.

Trump 45 forced Congress to pass the JFK Records Act in 1992 requiring all remaining government records about the JFK assassination to be released by October 2017, except those that risked to national security. But there was no release when Trump 45 left office in 2021.

The Mountain Top Times did not expect anything shocking to be released in the first tranche, and there is nothing that we found that indicates Lee Harvey Oswald was not the only Kennedy assassin on Nov. 22, 1963. But stay tuned for the second and third releases over the next two weeks.

Most files are document scans, with many that are blurred and difficult to read. But there are photographs and sounds recordings from the 1960s.

A document dated Nov. 20, 1991 appears to be a teletyped U.S. intelligence reporting that Lee Harvey Oswald had stormy relationship in the Soviet Union with his Soviet.

The document says that a KGB official named Nikonov reviewed files from the feared Soviet security service, the KGB, to determine if Oswald “had been a KGB agent.”

Reuters reported that a document cited a report from an American professor named E.B. Smith who reportedly had talked in Moscow about Oswald with KGB official “Slava” Nikonov, who said he had reviewed five thick files about the assassin to determine if he had been a KGB agent.

The document states “Nikonov is now confident that Oswald was at no time an agent controlled by the KGB.” Nikonov also stated that he “doubted that anyone could control Oswald, but noted that the KBG had watched him closely and constantly while he was in the USSR.”

Nikonov also told Smith the KGB had “also reflected that Oswald was a poor shot when he tried target firing in the USSR.” But former U.S. Marine Oswald firing from a clear elevated position with a tripod could easily have meds the shot.

Department of Defense documents from 1963 covered the Cold War of the early 1960s and the U.S. activities in Latin America aimed at countering Cuba’s Fidel Castro's support of communist forces in other countries.

The documents suggest Fidel Castro would not go so far as to provoke a war with the United States or engage in escalations "that would seriously and immediately endanger the Castro regime."

The documents suggest that "It appears more likely that Castro might intensify his support of subversive forces in Latin America."

One document that is known to exists but supposedly not yet turned over to the National Archives, is the initial one-on-one conversation between President Lyndon Johnson and CIA Director John McCone directly after Johnson took office after Kennedy’s assassination.

McCone is believed to have withheld information from the Warren Commission that led the official investigation of Kennedy’s assassination detailed in Philip Shenon book titled: “A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination.”

President kept John McCone on as CIA Director. Shenon wrote in a 2015 Politico article that he testified to the Warren Commission that the CIA had no evidence to suggest that Oswald was part of any conspiracy, foreign or domestic, but acted as a former Marine had been a delusional lone wolf.

Mountain Top Times will update this story as the important documents are released over the next two weeks.